also, just noticed... i have been able to run things as root in x before... i have spacefm open still. but can no longer start another instance of spacefm as root. definately done something bad...
~(ah, found the modify button. was looking along the bottom of a post for an edit button before.)~
export DISPLAY=:0.0
also failed to remedy
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a few other things tried n failed...
but now, seems like i have a clue to work from:
xauth list $DISPLAY
returns nothing. it should return something like
somehost.somedomain:10 mit-magic-cookie-1 4d22408a71a55b41ccd1657d377923ae
according to that thread on lq
last post suggested
xauth $DISPLAY
which just gave
xauth: (argv):1: unknown command ":0.0"
which gave me the idea of trying just
xauth list
without the trailing "$DISPLAY" as first suggested, and there i got something that looked more like useful output:
levinrahn/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 b14aff4blah7537ablah74dcblahd0be
which i am now about to attempt to feed in, into the correct place, after having written all this to keep the progress report in this thread up to date...
...and...
upon closer reading of that post suggesting "xauth list $DISPLAY" i think maybe they didnt mean to add the $DISPLAY, from how they word it in the brackets which i must have skimmed past too carelessly on first read.
that "levinrahn/unix" concerns me for a couple reasons, before i hit enter on
xauth add levinrahn/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 b14aff4blah7537ablah74dcblahd0be
that's not my host anymore.
it was a typo on installation that i thought i'd fixed post instalation. levinrahn -> levinrhan. seems this may be the source of my woes.
so i change it to
xauth add [b]levinrhan[/b]/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 b14aff4blah7537ablah74dcblahd0be
and pray that it saying unix like that there ((weird)), is a non-issue...
...and...
...hits enter...
...no errors in terminal...
...jumps to the menu to attempt to launch something as root...
...sees synaptic show up...
...smiles, and goes off to mark this shit solved, and congratulates himself for learning something through troubleshooting.
isnt gnu adorable like that?
